were the 2 lines of text you talk about next to the bars or in the columns on the left?
if next to the bars, then go to format>bars
Select your bar (normally called Early Bar or something) and click the Modify Button
Click the label tab. In this dialog, you can specify all sorts of dtata that displays above, below and next to your bars. You can display log fields here. If you select to dosplay sveeral log fields (say LOG1 to LOG5) then they will display one on top of the other. Then you can enter your longer description in those log fields. Each log field is 48 char (like act descr.) but you have 99 of them so go nuts.
If in the columns then possibly they used custom data items and then inserted them as columns. You only have 8 custom data items though and 2 are normally reserved for Target Start and Target Finish as for some unknown reason P3.1 cant filter on target dates.
Deb is right. Max length 48 chars. Welcome to 20 year old software :D
Actually, I quite like the discipline of the shorter act descript, theres rarely anything I cant get to fit, especially if you accept that area designations and phases etc can be handled in your Activity codes.
For everything else theres logs, although sadly you cant display a log field as a column, which is frustrating.
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Submitted by Pranab Kumar Deb on Thu, 2008-02-07 07:48
There is no tool to extend the activity description , u can have a separate column of Custom Data item naming it as Activity Further description(AFD) or u can use log.
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18 years 2 monthsRE: LENGTH OF DESCRIPTION
were the 2 lines of text you talk about next to the bars or in the columns on the left?
if next to the bars, then go to format>bars
Select your bar (normally called Early Bar or something) and click the Modify Button
Click the label tab. In this dialog, you can specify all sorts of dtata that displays above, below and next to your bars. You can display log fields here. If you select to dosplay sveeral log fields (say LOG1 to LOG5) then they will display one on top of the other. Then you can enter your longer description in those log fields. Each log field is 48 char (like act descr.) but you have 99 of them so go nuts.
If in the columns then possibly they used custom data items and then inserted them as columns. You only have 8 custom data items though and 2 are normally reserved for Target Start and Target Finish as for some unknown reason P3.1 cant filter on target dates.
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17 years 9 monthsRE: LENGTH OF DESCRIPTION
I HAVE SEEN IN AN OLD BAR CHART OF AND EPC COMPANY THEY WERE WRITING LONGER DESCRIPTIONS EXTENDED IN TWO LINES.
I WAS WANDERING HOW THEY MANAGED IT.?
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18 years 2 monthsRE: LENGTH OF DESCRIPTION
Deb is right. Max length 48 chars. Welcome to 20 year old software :D
Actually, I quite like the discipline of the shorter act descript, theres rarely anything I cant get to fit, especially if you accept that area designations and phases etc can be handled in your Activity codes.
For everything else theres logs, although sadly you cant display a log field as a column, which is frustrating.
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18 years 9 monthsRE: LENGTH OF DESCRIPTION
Hello Sajid,
There is no tool to extend the activity description , u can have a separate column of Custom Data item naming it as Activity Further description(AFD) or u can use log.
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deb